NOSTALGIA: A STORY FROM THE HEART

12 HUMMS-E

By: Ryan Jhon A. Ramos

12 HUMSS-E

To: Ms. Jericha P. Aristo

Reflective Essay on Myself
 It's just a fact of life that people can suck up your personality just by looking at
you, and seeing how you act around different people. Some people act differently
from others that's just how we are. You may act quiet and subtle around your family
but around your friends you may feel boisterous and loud. People may feel more
comfortable around their family as they can show their true personality. People cover
up their true personality sometimes just to appease other people. They don't want to
show their true colours in case it leads to embarrassment. Some people wear certain
clothes just to fit in with a particular group. Others don't voice their true opinion and
just go with the flow and don't stand up to be counted.

From a personal point of view I feel that I am sometimes like this. I am not shy most
of the time and can be a bit irritating for some people and our personalities clash,
but that's life! Other times, if the class is quiet and I don't understand a question, I
refuse to put my hand up, so sometimes I am shy.

By some people I can be seen as annoying at times but by others I am looked upon as
someone who enjoys a laugh, but at the same time wants to get the best out of their
education. I think I excel at schoolwork and I hope to achieve good qualifications to
make my school life a happy memory.
In the future I hope to be involved with the police force and be able to help the local
community in some sort of way.

To be the person that I am now, I had to reflect and accept accountability of my past
actions. My past is one that many would love to erase from their memory, a past,
which remained dormant, until I found myself. The steps involved in regaining
myself encompassed letting go of my anger and self-pity.
My journey of self-development has taken scale on a variety of experiences. As a
child, I was always withdrawn, almost as if I was in my own world entirely. I tried my
hardest to become extroverted, but overtime problems arose with my speech and
social anxiety. No one knew at the time, but this part of my personality impacted me
a lot as I grew older. I developed a low self-esteem and became very self-conscious of
myself.

developed an awareness and curiosity for what comes next in life. Somewhere along
the way, I became lost in the idea that I could accomplish anything when fully giving
myself, but what did I want to fully give myself to? It took some tough hardships and
experiences for me to finally "find" myself. Realizing my potential led up to
acknowledging the dream I had in my heart all along. And once I had found that for
myself, I knew nothing was going to hold me back. I began senior high school in a
naïve state of mind, unaware of what to expect. The majority of my hardships
occurred during my senior high school experience.
 NOSTALGIA: A STORY FROM THE HEART

By: Clyzha B. Posadas

12 HUMSS-E

To: Ms. Jericha P. Aristo

Reflective Essay on Myself

Values, Strengths, Personality, and Motivators

Values are stable life goals that one has. Values reflect what a person considers most
important to them. Most importantly I value my self-respect. I am confident and
proud of myself regardless of the poor decisions I have made in the past. I am open
minded, clean, obedient to my elders, peers and respectful to the young, and I believe
that the world is a beautiful place and that I should not waste my time and energy
focusing on negativity.

I wouldn’t say that I have life figured out yet, but I have an inner drive that makes me
question the environment around me and why both good and bad things happen. I
am always punctual, outgoing but not very sociable. Social situations make me
nervous at times especially when I am interacting with strangers. I am very tolerant,
understanding and honest with people.

Some of the positive experiences in my life were I'm moving up from Grade 10 and
stepping in my new journey in Senior high. My life in Senior high school made me
realize that I could persevere and be tolerant. Senior high also taught me how to
build my confidence, make the most out of social situations and to accept that people
are not perfect, it is their imperfectness that makes them perfect for us.
Perseverance, tolerance, desire, and self-acceptance are some of the attributes that
helped me climb the ladder and doing my school work good.

The most difficult moments in my life were being laid-off during recession and losing
a loved one. I was in denial, and I felt sad and angry at everything and everyone. I
blamed myself and God for everything that happened. I was broken, but time heals
all wounds. I was able to rediscover myself, and this event shaped me into being the
person I am today. I rediscovered myself because I believed in myself and I was able
to use the situations to make myself a better person.

My main motivation is my family. My parents and siblings motivate me to live every

day like it’s the last. I want to make to impact my society positively and leave a long-
lasting imprint. I strive to learn something new every day and grow to become a
better person.

Leading a Good Life

I will have led a good life if I end up positively impacting the society. I do not
necessarily have to impact the whole society. I will be content with positively
impacting a few individuals who will, in turn, inspire others to lead better lives.
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts,”.
According to me, success is waking up in the morning with the feeling that someone
out there is leading a better life because of me.